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Dr. John, the New Orleans character extraordinaire, sings what are billed as the songs of Johnny Mercer. Actually they're mostly other composers' tunes with lyrics by Mercer--and there's the rub. Dr. John is a master of the funky mumble, his vowels brayed and bent, his consonants missing...
He'd have to up the ante--Krzyzewski commands up to $100,000 a speech, and his name even graces an academic arm, the Fuqua/ Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics at Duke. All this for a guy who teaches men in shorts how to toss balls through a hoop...
You'll be relieved to know that it's possible to have a nonawkward conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld. In fact, she answers the door of her sunny apartment in downtown Philadelphia with actual aplomb. Sittenfeld has a dramatically curvy nose, dark straight hair and a loud, appealing laugh. Seriocomic misunderstandings...
DID YOU KNOW the Chinese character for "convenient myth" is made up of the characters for "sounds good" and "why fact-check"? In answer to a question about the conflict in the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells NBC audiences that the Chinese character for "crisis" contains the...
So The Illusionist, based on a story by Steven Millhauser, is the perfect title for any movie that wants you to consider the first principle of cinema: take nothing you see for granted. Same goes for the film's title character, Eisenheim (Edward Norton), who astonishes Vienna theatergoers of a...